puppet function for troubleshooting

gistfile1.pp

require 'json'
require 'puppet/parser/functions'

module Puppet::Parser::Functions
  newfunction(:dump_args, :type => :statement,:doc => <<-EOS
     dump_args - prints the args to STDOUT in Pretty JSON format.

     Useful for debugging purposes only.

 EOS
  )  do |args|
   puts JSON.pretty_generate(args)
  end

end